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| Academy aims to export <b>Sabah</b> hospitality - The Borneo Post Online Posted: 30 Dec 2013 03:06 PM PST by Natasha Sim. Posted on December 31, 2013, Tuesday KOTA KINABALU: Ascot Academy aims to groom its students to international standards next year and provide them with the opportunity to work overseas. "We want to export Sabahan hospitality," Chief Executive Officer of Ascot Academy, Abdul Razak Egoh, said during the award ceremony at 1Borneo Grand Ballroom yesterday. However, he said the goal is still in its planning stages. Egoh added that personnel from Singapore, China and Macau have already approached the academy seeking to employ its graduates. "These countries have a booming hotelier industry with integrated resorts such as the Venetian and Marina Bay Sands," he said. Eighty students from across Sabah were awarded with Skill Proficiency Certificates in Basic Housekeeping Services and Basic Food and Beverage Services during the ceremony. Also in attendance at the event was Deputy Director of the State Human Resources Development Department, Haji Kamlun Haji Pasal. Egoh said the goal of the institute is to train individuals that are both creative and innovative for the State's hospitality industry. The awarded vocational certificates are internationally accredited by City and Guilds, a vocational skills training organization based in the United Kingdom. "Sabah is one of the largest tourist states in Malaysia. Recent reports have stated that Sabah had a 15.3% increase in tourists for the first eight months of 2013 compared to last year," he said. It is with this indication that the academy targets lower-income background youths below 25 years of age to provide them with skill training needed for work in the hospitality industry. "Since our operations started in March 2010, we have produced 887 graduates from both long-term and short-term programs, and the success rates for graduates to obtain jobs after graduation is more than 50%," said Egoh. Meanwhile, Ascot Academy graduates Rolland Lauring, 22, and Prichard Oneal, 19, are grateful to have been immediately offered job positions at respected hotels in the industry prior to graduation. Rolland will be stepping into his career at Shangri-La's Rasa Ria Resort, Tuaran, while Prichard has accepted an offer to work at YTL Gaya Island Resort. The duo also received the best student award from the academy for their respective Certificate in Basic Housekeeping Services and Certificate in Basic Food and Beverage Services. Rolland said that while he had collected work experiences in Peninsular Malaysia, he came back to Sabah to be closer to his family. "I've always had an interest in the hotel industry so these three months at the academy has been worth it," he said. Prichard, however, feels that the three months was not enough for training and feels the biggest challenge was that he lacked work experience. "That's why during my practical I went full blast to adapt to the work conditions and absorb what I needed to learn," he said. He hopes that his immediate employment will help make things easier for his family of four siblings, whose parents are self-employed.  To enable your comment to be published, please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. This includes vulgar user names.  |
| 28/12/2013: SKMM <b>Sabah</b> akan terus melipatganda usaha bagi <b>...</b> Posted: 28 Dec 2013 12:10 AM PST Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia, SKMM Sabah akan terus melipatganda usaha bagi membantu kerajaan merealisasikan segala program transformasi terutama dalam bidang ekonomi. Ahli Suruhanjaya SKMM, Dato' Mohd Nazri Abdullah berkata kearah itu SKMM akan sentiasa memberi komitmen penuh terutama dalam membantu pelaksanaan dasar-dasar, misi selaras wawasan dan visi Kementerian Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia. Beliau berkata demikian pada majlis bersama Industri Telekomunikasi Sabah di Kota Kinabalu, malam tadi. Hadir sama ialah Timbalan Ketua Setiausaha KKMM, Datuk Che Azemi Haron dan Pengarah SKMM Wilayah Sabah dan Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan, K. Juslly Elis. Majlis berkenaan turut dihadiri pengurus besar serta wakil dari syarikat-syarikat telekomunikasi di Sabah dan Labuan. Antara lain ia bertujuan untuk mengeratkan perhubungan antara agensi dibawah KKMM dan syarikat-syarikat telekomunikasi dinegeri ini. id/NADYA/TAMRIN ~mfja~ This entry was posted in BERITA RADIO. Bookmark the permalink. |
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